Apparently so.

It seems very few Americans remember it. It was in the newspapers at the time, you can find the same story in the WaPo and NYT, but then was never mentioned again.

Bush’s approval rating was poor. He wanted a war to get a second term.

If you recall, Nixon prolonged the Vietnam War to get re-elected, and Bush and Cheney thought, “There were no consequences when Nixon killed a lot of GIs this way, so why not go one further and start a war?”

Criminals, the lot of them.